The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1887-01-22
In the Kitchen Garden.


The result Of the application of concen-
trated manures is quite as apparent upon
the market garden, as upon the wheat
field.
If you HAYS not saved a supply of seed,
procure the best the market affords. Home
grown seed, in many cases, win be found
quite as satisfactory.
1t is not too soon to make the frames of
the hot beds and get everything ready.
Save the manure for that purpose, which
should be fresh and free from coarse litter.
Make your plans now for good kitchen
garden next season. If you cannot grow
everything, grow what suits your soil and
climate, and the best of these as well as you
can.
In the vicinity of all large cities market
gardening is the most remunerative use to
which farmers can put their acres, But
while supplying the city with vegetables do
not forget that the city has large amount
of refuse matter which should be returned
to your farms as fertilizers.
| Sweet corn often yield 500 to $3.50 or
even 5000 per acre, and being easily pro-
duced is fairly profitable on farms within
fifteen miles of good market. 1t will not
bear transportation well for long distances,
coming as it does at the hottest season of
the year and heating readily in the barrels.
1t is an excellent practice to put spoon
full of good phosphate in the hill when
planting sweet corn, well mixed with the
soil, or ii the seed is put in by machine to
sow little along the rows after the seed is
in. This will give the young corn good
start, which is important, especially with
the early crop.
Every garden ought to have few filbert
bushes. If the fence corners and hedges
must have something growing in them, the
ilbert is as good as anything. As to va
rieies the Cosford is an improved kind of
the English. 1t very productive, bearing a
large nut with thin shell and kernel CT
excellent flavor. The Coburg bears large
nut, and it is an abundant bearer. The
Dwarf Prolific is perhaps as beautiful as
any, though the nut is rather small.
TO produce good sweet corn early re-
quires a dry, sandy loan with southern
slope: the land, if stubble, should be
plowed and then rolled and manured broad
cast with six or eight cords of stable ma.
nure per acre, and then powed again so as
to turn under the manure. If the land is
greensward it will answer well to spread
half the manure on the sod before blowing
aud then spread the balance, If fine, on the
plowed land to be narrowed in with disk
harrow.
In order to avoid the vexa.ion and loss
from failure of seed to germnate, it is
well to test sample of each kind of seed
that is to be sown, for the appearance of
seeds is not correct indication of their
value. They may look as though they
were perfectly sound, yet by age, or expo
sure to heat or moisture, they may have
lost their vitality. Many seeds are injured
by some mistake in drying or by being
stored in an improper place. Therefore it
is always best to try a sample before the
seeds are sown.
No article of liquid nature, says an eX.
change, possesses more manurial properties
thar soap-suds, and on this account il
should meyer be thrown away. 1t contains
the food of plants in a state of solution,
and therefore is prepared to act at once aud
with energy. By mixing it with soap-suds,
chip manure, muck, etc, and allowing the
whole to ferment an excellent manure fol
field and garden crops will be obtained. In
a liquid state it is valuable manure fol
grape vines and all kinds of fruit trees, as
well as for vegetables and flowers.